School: St Patrick's, Aughnacliffe (roll number 13283)
- Location:
- Aghnacliff, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Dubhda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0761, Page 224
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“There are four blacksmiths shops in this district...”
(continued from previous page)grass grows and water flows there will be men got who will dare (to) and die for her God given rights."Andy Mc Keon's Opinion"
Now Andy in Molly
Looks ever so gay
When he hears that - the Crott man
Old axels wont lay.
II
And that Mallon of Gelsha
Hasent time for to eat
Rilating strange stories
Of famed ninty eight
III
And that Batty he isent,
That terribly dry.
That he cant turn up
The big white of his eye.
IV
And his memory sometimes
He surely will jog
And he'l tell that
Phelim drives nails in the frog
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That young Francy Smyth
I's so terribly discreet
he can finish steel,
Railings so nice and complete.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seamus Mc Nerney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Aghnacliff, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Patrick Connolly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Aghnacliff, Co. Longford